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"Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it."
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Source: Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.58, OUP Oxford
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